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CVE-2026-119317medium6.5

Incorrect Authorization

Impact

On Linux, an authenticated, low-privileged Nessus user with scan-creation rights could read arbitrary text files on the scanner host with the privileges of the nessusd process by running a custom Unix compliance audit against the scanner itself.

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What to do

Tenable has released updates to Plugins to resolve the issue. The updates have been distributed via the Tenable plugin feed in Feed Serial Numbers equal to or greater than #202610282338.

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Original source description

On Linux, an authenticated, low-privileged Nessus user with scan-creation rights could read arbitrary text files on the scanner host with the privileges of the nessusd process by running a custom Unix compliance audit against the scanner itself.

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CVE-2026-119317

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Underlying weaknesses

The source’s classification of what caused the vulnerability.

CWE-284 ↗

CWE-284 Improper Access Control

CISA-ADP

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Contributing organizations · 2
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Assigning organization

2026-10-29
CISA-ADP

Additional data publisher

2026-10-30

What changed

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  1. CVE · CVE-2026-119317

    Observed 2026-10-30T18:56:04.912Z · upstream updated 2026-10-30T17:07:23.004Z

    Weakness classification changed

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  {
    "id": "CWE-284",
    "description": "CWE-284 Improper Access Control",
    "source": "CISA-ADP"
  }
]
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  {
    "source": "CISA-ADP",
    "type": "SSVC",
    "role": "CISA Coordinator",
    "timestamp": "2026-10-30T17:06:57.763805Z",
    "decisions": [
      {
        "name": "Exploitation",
        "value": "none"
      },
      {
        "name": "Automatable",
        "value": "no"
      },
      {
        "name": "Technical Impact",
        "value": "partial"
      }
    ]
  }
]

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References

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www.tenable.com/security/tns-2026-33
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